Xin Zhao Build Guide by HIACliff
Build Guide
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Junkxy wrote:
First off, I want to say that this is an awesome guide to Xin, who I use as my main and I agree with everything and would only suggest one change in regards to survivability that has helped me out of some very tight spots. You can agree or disagree with me, I'm interested in hearing other opinions. I have used boots of mobility on Xin 95% of all my games and I find them to more than compensate for the attack speed lost when not using beserkers. The plus 5 out of combat combined with phantoms and tri equals invaluable time shed off cross map treks, and could be the difference between life and death encounters, or the last hit on the ace who might get away with berserkers. Otherwise, pro guide. Boots of Mobility will work just fine. I may even recommend that, or change it in my guide. When I first wrote this, I worried less about ganking and moving across the map and more about solid lane dominance. I'll go back to Xin for a couple games, try the boots change, and let you know.  |
HIACliff Notable (58) Posts: 259 Joined: 2010-08-21 IGN: HIACliff |
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i like this build very much . This is awesome build i voted yes |
 deathb0y Unremarkable (1) Posts: 1 Joined: 2011-07-18 |
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I like the build, however, I can't get passed the whole building Xin into a Glass Cannon of sorts. I've seen others (enemies and teammates) do it and they just get owned so quick. Yeah your attack speed is up there, and your lifesteal from your output can keep you alive, it and only if you don't get hit by a stun lasting 2 or more seconds. |
 Revory Unremarkable (7) Posts: 41 Joined: 2011-01-23 IGN: Revory |
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Very good build IMO I just played with it and went 27-0-14 + I could 1v4 any of them maybe 1v5 and I got a PENTAKILL!!!My first! :) and my teammate pointed out that I was lvl 18 and he was like ''WTF man?how are you already lvl 18 when the highest of the WHOLE game (their team included) is lvl 11???'' Epic build +1 |
 Videopug Posts: 3 Joined: 2011-07-13 IGN: Bloodbane2010 on NA |
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Revory wrote:
I like the build, however, I can't get passed the whole building Xin into a Glass Cannon of sorts. I've seen others (enemies and teammates) do it and they just get owned so quick. Yeah your attack speed is up there, and your lifesteal from your output can keep you alive, it and only if you don't get hit by a stun lasting 2 or more seconds. I find building him like this would be great in normal games but in ranked there is always atleast 2 stuns on a good team, and as Xin your gonna be focused if you don't wait till after the initiation is over for you tank to soak all the CC. If you show up to early to a fight your getting shut down hard, Xin with this build makes you Prime Target #1 and even showing up late to team fights by a few seconds might help your chance for living through it, but a good team will wait for the DPS to show up to unload on unless the Tank is a real threat. I know that if you get fed early on, this could work out insanely well, but if the other team can turtle long enough and extend the game, they build bulk and survival and tons of damage and will be able to shut you out from killing them at that point. Yeah I see many people build TriForce on him and call it survival, yeah you get decent Hp and a higher Output, but if your CC'd down your just sitting there wondering what went wrong. Building HP's with the current meta isn't enough and as a melee AD, you need bulk and defense to survive in the middle of the action rather then melting after you get hit by Brands 3 second stun, that your charge, yeah auto hits you, unless you roll with Flash like me and flash to the side and charge, but then some see that as a waist even though it gets the job done. But as you can see I can be very long winded on Xin as a Glass Cannon, so I think I got my point across. Overall, great layout on the guide, but I would personally say Items need a bit of a revamp for you main build rather than running Glass Cannon. Rep given for excellent feedback. Everything you have said is somewhat true, so I can't really argue against it. I personally use it quite often in ranked, and even moreso as a jungle swapping PD for Madred's. However, it takes a certain degree of patience and a lot of experience on when to join in a team fight. Like you said, if you wait a couple seconds your chance of survival is much higher. If your tank is doing a decent job, I can normally hop in the middle of a team fight and kill at least 2 before I'm focused down enough to be killed. |
HIACliff Notable (58) Posts: 259 Joined: 2010-08-21 IGN: HIACliff |
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AnIh wrote:
My comment is clear , playing Xin as a glass canon is worthless compared to tanky Xin , if you can't admit that dont write a guide . And i will be happy to meet all this guys playing ur so powerful Glasscanon xin and kill them on a stun :) lets build a melee character with no escape mechanisms and two iniation skills and high base damage with pure DPS items lol makes pure sense. lets charge into 5 people team with a 30 armour/mr 1.7k health melee character who is squishier than ashe with no escape mechanism and two initation skills and high base damage and expect not to get gibbed in 0.02 seconds pure sense. pure logic is pure. |
 hypernewbie Posts: 2 Joined: 2011-02-21 IGN: HyperNewby |
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Wow great build! i played a match and i like killed ppl in under 3 sec! |
xXJoJoXx Posts: 2 Joined: 2011-07-25 IGN: J to tha SA |
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hypernewbie wrote:
lets build a melee character with no escape mechanisms and two iniation skills and high base damage with pure DPS items lol makes pure sense. lets charge into 5 people team with a 30 armour/mr 1.7k health melee character who is squishier than ashe with no escape mechanism and two initation skills and high base damage and expect not to get gibbed in 0.02 seconds pure sense. pure logic is pure. If you play Xin in this style, you deserve the many defeats that will come to you. But for the record, Xin is not squishier than an Ashe. |
HIACliff Notable (58) Posts: 259 Joined: 2010-08-21 IGN: HIACliff |
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this build is not that great tbh. xin only needs 2-3 offensive items and the rest has to be defensive items. Having banshees and atmas impalar late game is way more important than more offense. i normally build trinity and cleaver and rest defensive items. |
 Upuranus Posts: 1 Joined: 2011-05-27 |
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really love your guide, xin is very fun to play... voted it up :D Check out my Vladimir Guide :)
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 FakeTuga Posts: 31 Joined: 2011-07-27 |
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